Market’s 3 percent fall suggests deepening worry – RSI soars September 22, 2011
Posted by Marlowe Cassetti in SGG.trackback
Stocks plunged on Thursday, extending a selloff to four days, as policymakers’ failure to arrest global economic stagnation sent markets spiraling downward.
The heavy volume of Thursday’s plunge signaled investors are selling in anticipation of more losses. Wall Street’s "fear gauge," the CBOE Volatility Index, jumped 12 percent, giving the index its biggest 2-day percentage spike in a month as investors protected against more losses to come.
Energy and materials shares were among the hardest hit areas on worries of slowing worldwide demand. Signs of a slowdown in China fed those fears.
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 391.01 points, or 3.51 percent, to 10,733.83. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index lost 37.20 points, or 3.19 percent, to 1,129.56. The Nasdaq Composite Index slid 82.52 points, or 3.25 percent, to 2,455.67. (commentary & photo courtesy of Reuters)
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The headlines above tell it all. The market is tanking. The RSI portfolio is again soaring, up 0.8% buoyed by big gains in ZROZ, SDS and VXZ. However, the silver fund SIVR took a hard hit. Also the sugar fund SGG was stopped out. The net result of all this is a 1.4% gain in the non-cash portion of the RSI portfolio. The portfolio’s cash reserves have grown now to 42.7%.
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No new RSI signals after the markets close. Catch you later.
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